McClain Trailers – 2014 Houston Boat Show
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Fishing Tackle Unlimited – 2014 Houston Boat Show
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Mt Houston Marine – Blue Wave PureBay – 2014 Houston Boat Show
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Mt. Houston Marine – Kat 250HDX – 2014 Houston Boat Show
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Best Boating Videos on the Web
Scary but true: Youtube has become the world’s second-largest search engine. The good news is that no matter what you’re into, you can find some pretty awesome Youtube videos about it. And yes, that includes boating. Here are three of
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Boating Gear for Kids
If you’re a dedicated angler and you have kids, you’ve been through plenty of problems as you’ve raised those rascals aboard your boat. My “little ones” are in their teens now, and I’ve made it more or less out of the woods.
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Choosing the Best Small Outboard Motor
When it comes to small outboards in the 2.5 to 25 horsepower range, you have a lot of options to choose from. How will you know which outboard is the best for you? Luckily, there are a few key items to
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Docking Problems: Don’t Smash Up The Boat!
Docking a powerboat can be extremely stressful, especially when there are a lot of eyes on you. On the other hand, it can also be quite entertaining, if you’re one of the people doing the watching instead of the docking.
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The Boy’s First Boat
I just bought another boat, despite the fact that I agreed to cap the fleet at three boats when my wife agreed to marry me. How’d I get around the rule? Simple – I didn’t buy it for myself. In
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It’s Thanksgiving – Let’s Be Thankful, Boaters
We boaters have a lot of things to be thankful for. In fact, boating has become easier, more reliable, less environmentally costly, and safer than ever before, in the past few years. What gives? As technology marches forward, boats and
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Garmin Enters Side-Scan Fishfinder Fray
Well, it’s about time Garmin did it – this week at the METS (Marine Electronics Trade Show) show, they announced SideVu and DownVu, their version of the high-res down- and side-scanners we’ve all come to know and love.. SideVu and DownVu
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Lowrance Rolls Out SpotlightScan and SonarHub Fishfinders
With the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show now over, one of the big discoveries stands out: Lowrance is still red-hot, introducing a range of new units for next year. The biggest announcements are fishfinders, including the new SpotlightScan and SonarHub. Here’s
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Boat Storage No-No’s – Don’t Do This!
Whether you’re storing your boat for a week or for a month, if you don’t put it up properly you could be in for a disaster. We’ve talked before about whether or not rack storage is a good move, and
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How NOT to Trim your Boat
I was recently working on an article for Boats.com on three stupid ways people sink their boats, and one of these dumb disasters can come into play each and every time people leave the dock. I’m talking about trim. How
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Making Your Boat Stealthy – Don’t Scare the Fish!
A while back in “5 Tips for Kayak Fishing,” we talked about how the stealthy nature of yaks gives you a serious fishing advantage. Well, what about those of us who run full-sized bay boats and center consoles? Stealth counts
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Lehr Outboards: Can You Run Boats on Propane?
In a nutshell, the answer to the above question is now “yes”. A company called Lehr has started producing propane outboards, and these things seem to be catching on. The advantages of using propane are pretty significant: instead of filling
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Lowrance Elite 7x HDI – Full Season Test
I had the chance to spend a season with the Lowrance Elite 7x HDI fishfinder/chartplotter, and after some extended use, thought you might like to know the ins and outs of this extremely popular unit. For starters, remember that this
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Pontoon Boats for Fishing?
Pontoon boats don’t exactly strike most of us as hard-core fishing machines; they can’t handle rough seas, they can’t probe the shallows, and many aren’t what you’d call “high performance,” but I’ve run across at least three pontoon fishing boats lately which quite frankly make
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Electrical Connections on Boats: Win the Never-Ending Battle
Electrical connections on boats present a never-ending battle. They corrode and corrupt, shake free from vibrations, and those that need to be constantly disconnected and reconnected, such as the plug-ends in the back of a removable fishfinder or chartplotter, are easily damaged
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Outboard Smack-Down: Two-stroke vs. Four
Both two-stroke and four-stroke outboard engines have, as a rule, come a darn long way in the past decade or so. We used to have to deal with smelly, noisy, unreliable engines that took the pleasure right out of running
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